The table shows the current rank of each book and the change since last week, where:

= same as last week

+/- change since last week

+ back on list

++ new on list

x no longer on list (number of x's: weeks off list)

All lists rank hardcovers and paperbacks separately, except for the USA Today list, which is a single list combining fiction and nonfiction in all formats. Dates shown are posted dates, except those in parentheses, which are dates compiled. New York Times posts its list one week in advance of print publication.

Note that some sources do not compile paperback bestsellers, and some exclude YA books (like the Harry Potter series) from their hardcover and paperback fiction lists.

Weekly Bestellers

Week ending 18 August 2009

Sherrilyn Kenyon's Bad Moon Rising (St. Martin's), latest in her Dark-Hunter series, debuts strongly on hardcover lists this week, ranking #1 at New York Times and Publishers Weekly.

Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice (Penguin), not a genre book but noted here as an associational item, also debuts strongly on print lists, ranking #1 in San Francisco, #3 in Washington DC, #5 in New York.

And The Winds of Dune by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson (Tor) debuts on three lists, though ranking no higher than #15 at NYT and PW.